English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 8

“Possible it is,” said the Warlock Merlin, “but woe to the man or mother's son that attempts it, if he is not well taught beforehand what he is to do.”

Who acts: Warlock, Warlock Merlin, son, Merlin · What happens: be, say, attempt, not teach · To what, where: Warlock, Merlin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Warlock, Warlock Merlin, son, Merlin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Possible	punct
2	Possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Possible	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Possible	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Possible	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Possible	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Merlin	det
9	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Merlin	compound
10	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 woe	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 woe	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 woe	cc
14	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Merlin	appos
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 man	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woe	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 son	cc
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 son	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 mother	case
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 attempts	nsubj
23	attempts	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 son	acl:relcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 attempts	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taught	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 taught	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 taught	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 taught	aux:pass
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 taught	advmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 taught	advmod
31	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
32	beforehand	beforehand	ADP	_	33 what	case
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 taught	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 do	cop
36	to	to	PART	_	37 do	mark
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Warlock		possible property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Warlock Merlin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	attempt in a quote	present	mother's son	Warlock		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	not teach speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		Merlin	well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	Merlin		do property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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